No video, but I did get the sunrise the same morning.
Tag Archives: Landscape
Rain at MINAE
Sometimes it rains elsewhere.
Get-away
Last weekend, I went to Santa Rosa National Park for a couple of hours. After staying the night in a hotel near the park, we went to a jelly fish infested beach, wandered around for a few hours and returned to the island that is Palo Verde.
A finished fence and a crocodile
After completing a fence to keep out the damn cows, Boa and I discovered that a 2-m crocodile had come to investigate. The water is still very shallow, so it didn’t make an attempt to get away… that is, until we decided to strap a rope around it’s jaw and wrangle it to the shore.
Charles is shown stringing the crocodile’s jaw and Paul is the other individual celebrating the catch.
The Second-Wave of Mosquitoes
| The mosquitoes are getting out of control. Walking through parts of the wetland, I litterally have difficulty seeing my feet, not because they are underwater, but because there are thousands of freshly emerged mosquitoes dodging my boots.
It seems that this is the second generation of mosquitoes, with the first potentially being left-overs from the dry season. It’ll be interesting, to say the least, to experience the exponential growth. |
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Tiger Ratsnake
I’ve seen a lot of new snakes lately. This one was one of the most tame and coolest snakes. 
A Typha fire
Last Thursday, the sky appeared to glow orange on the eastern side of the wetland from the OET station. When Boa, Daniela, and I went to investigate, we discovered that there was a gigantic ‘natural’ fire sweeping through the decomposing, dry Typha (cattail). I took some poor photographs of the blaze, and then one the next day from the top of a nearby hill.
Although there was lightning striking that night, Mahmood believes that local hunters had illegally started the fire so that when regrowth occurs, they can shoot the deer that come to consume the seedlings and other young plants. MINAE appears to agree with his hypothesis, since they bulldozed a road to allow fast access to the area with a car, presumably to catch potential poachers.
The water comes to Bocana
Old birding tower
Unfortunately, this birding tower in the center of the lagoon is worn down and not safe to observe from. The staff at Palo Verde have, however, begun to finish the dock extending into the wetland.
There were glowsticks for some reason
The folks from Alpena Community College that enjoyed both the sunset and sunrise with me: Rob, Nic, Macie, and Jamie. (I certianly didn’t spell those correctly, but hopefully I got the right names…)